Right now could
be a good time for hardcore Hendrix fans to cover their ears and close their
eyes .... but for the rest of us let’s look back 25 years to an interesting experiment
that has never really gained the credit or audience it deserved.
Beautiful People was a UK-based collective of electro / trance musicians who somehow (apparently “Jimi Hendrix Jnr .... was a friend of the band”) gained permission from the Hendrix family to sample his recorded catalogue and use it as they wished.
As we know, many
musical crimes have been committed in similar circumstances – in particular the
unreleased Hendrix legacy has been plundered many times with a seemingly
complete lack of respect until the Hendrix family took a more active role in
managing it.
